The girl I’m on off with surprised me recently when she said she’s looking forward to ‘‘stealing horses’’ with me. Funny Germans.
The Swedish ‘‘sliding in on a prawn sandwich’’ is equally pleasing.
Got any favourite foreign idioms?
The girl I’m on off with surprised me recently when she said she’s looking forward to ‘‘stealing horses’’ with me. Funny Germans.
The Swedish ‘‘sliding in on a prawn sandwich’’ is equally pleasing.
Got any favourite foreign idioms?
I like ‘de Guatemala a Guatapeor’ - “From Guata-bad to Guata-worse”
“Piece of cake” in French is “doigt dans le pif”- finger in your nose!
‘Als mijn tante een piemel had, dan was het m’n oom geweest’
If …
I’ve mentioned it a few times on here when we’ve done this thread before, but mine is the Japanese phrase “mekuso hanakuso wo warau” = eye bogies laughing at nose bogies = the pot calling the kettle black
There’s no cow on the ice (det är ingen ko på isen) This is a roundabout Swedish way of saying, quite simply, ’ don’t worry’ or ‘take it easy’ .
I will now fulfill our legal obligation for these threads even though its “not my circus, not my monkeys”.